I would like to bring to your attention an exciting opportunity related to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada`s (AAFC) future capacity needs to grow Canadian agriculture science and innovation.

On September 21, 2018,  Minister MacAuley announced a transformational Government of Canada investment of $70 million in agricultural discovery science and innovation. As part of this investment, over $44 million will be dedicated to hiring and equipping approximately 75 scientists and science professionals across the country over the next five years.  

AAFC recently launched its first job poster aimed at recruiting approximately 40 research scientists in emerging fields such as, agro-ecology, artificial intelligence, the various-omics (genomics, phenomics, epigenetics, etc), and clean technologies. The recruitment for these positions will continue over the next 24 months or so. 

Your institutions provide a key source of highly qualified personnel that we would like to tap into. As such, I would appreciate if you could help us promote this opportunity by sharing this job poster:  Research Scientists – Growing Agricultural Innovation and encouraging potential candidates to visit our recruitment booths at various career fairs and other university events across the country.   

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank your organisations for helping us, through our on-going dialogue,  shape the vision for AAFC science and the types of professionals that we would need to support a progressive and sustainable agricultural sector in Canada.  

Regards, 

Gilles

Gilles Saindon  PhD
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister | Sous-ministre adjoint délégué
Science and Technology Branch | Direction générale des sciences et de la technologie
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
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